Teaming up with AVATAR, BABYMETAL announces new U.S. tour!

Following the release of their latest song ”Evaluator Girl”, heavy metal idol group BABYMETAL announced that they will be holding a brand new American tour.

As previously reported, BABYMETAL would be having its first arena concert in Los Angeles’s The Forum venue, the first time they would perform in a dome venue in the U.S. However, now the group announced that they will be investing in an entire tour around this venture; the tour is to start from September 4 to October 16. They announced several locations they plan to visit, which you can see to the right.

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Tickets are available through Ticketmaster—see more info here.

AAA will continue to perform in next fan club tour, albeit with slight twist!

Popular multi-gender group AAA announced that, despite recent events, their fan club only tour “AAA FAN MEETING ARENA TOUR 2019 ～FAN FUN FAN～” will be continuing as originally planned.

The tour, which will start June 15 in Miyagi’s Sekisui Heim Super Arena, will plan to hit twenty-one different venues across eight prefectures. Due to Naoya Urata’s current situation of being on hiatus due to him assaulting a woman, AAA will be continuing this tour as a five-member group. Members of the fan club who are fans of Urata and had previously bought tickets will be able to receive refunds for said tickets.

Faylan to rock us with best album to commemorate tenth anniversary!

Japanese pop-rock vocalist Faylan will rock us with a best album to commemorate her tenth anniversary in the music industry. Titled mind as ROCK! , the album will release July 24. Faylan is famous for many theme songs; she has contributed to anime such as Break Blade, Canaan, Girls Bravo, Future Diary, and many more. mind as ROCK! will be released in a four-disc set: 3 CDs and a Blu-ray featuring the promotional video for the album. The track listing and cover are currently TBA. In the meantime, you can pre-order your copy on CDJapan here and check out Faylan’s promotional video for her famous song “Blood teller” below:

Izumikawa Sora soars with second best album after thirteen years!

Japanese vocalist, voice actress (seiyuu), songwriter, producer, and composer Izumikawa Sora announced her second best album Sorabest 2 thirteen years after the release of her first best album Sorabest (released April 2006). Sorabest 2 will be released July 24 and will consist of twelve tracks, one of which a cover of UNISON SQUARE GARDEN’s “絵の具” (“E no Gu; paint”), which is also included on a fifteenth anniversary tribute album dedicated to the band. Izumikawa Sora will also appear as a guest at the special event for UNISON SQUARE GARDEN held at Diamond Hall in Aichi May 13 for their 「fun time HOLIDAY 7」 anti-van event. Check out the track listing below along with the promotional video for Time Capsule!

01. Plastic City
02. メインステージ (Main Stage)
03. Fly
04. 碧 (Ao; Moth)
05. message
06. 黄昏ゆく (Tasogare yuku; Yellow-ish)
07. リピートブライトデイ (Repeat Bright Day)
08. OH! Sunny Day
09. タイムカプセル（tribute ver.）(Time Capsule)
10. 願い (Negai; Wish)
11. はじまりの音（ね）(Hajimari no Oto ne; Sound of Beginning, right?)
12. 絵の具（r-r ver.） (E no Gu; paint)

Koda Kumi brings us back with re(LIVE) tour 2019!

Japanese veteran pop vocalist and queen of live Koda Kumi announced via her FanClub, website, and Instagram her 2019 hall tour. She will bring fans something very special with this tour, which will bring back 2007’s “Black Cherry” and 2013’s “JAPONESQUE”. Kuu-chan will show us how she has evolved over the years with re(LIVE) starting September 14 with “Koda Kumi Live Tour 2019 re(LIVE) ~Black Cherry~” and “Koda Kumi Live Tour 2019 re(LIVE) ~JAPONESQUE~”! Pre-sale tickets will become available May 21 while general admission tickets will become available May 27. Tour dates and venue information will be released at a later date. Check out the promotional image below to get hyped!